LSU's Colby Delahoussaye ready to follow in Drew Alleman's kick steps

7:04 PM,
Aug. 27, 2013

Colby Delahoussaye

Written by

Glenn Guilbeau
gguilbeau@gannett.com

BATON ROUGE - When you are a walk-on, first you make sure your coach knows how to pronounce your name. Then you make first team. And then you try to earn a scholarship.

So far so good for LSU kicker Colby Delahoussaye - pronounced DEL-UH-WHO-SEE, according to Delahoussaye. The redshirt freshman from New Iberia High will kick field goals and extra points for the No. 12 Tigers when they open the season Saturday against No. 20 TCU at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas (8 p.m. on ESPN).

"The very first time I got here, he said, "DEL-UH-WHO-SEE-AY," Delahoussaye said this week. ...